I've started looking at the Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach methods from .Net 4's Task Parallel Library. Before I use something as complex and potentially dangerous as this I like to test it out to make sure I'm going to get that performance boost before going down that path. Here's the console app...
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I'm doing some work with the ASP.NET Request object and have just discovered that I can get all of the "params" from one property on the Request object. If I'm not already in a context where the Request object is a member of that context (such as an MVC Controller or a codebehind page) then...
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The Domain You have a website that allows the public to add comments. For example You have a forum that users can post to. You have a product listing that visitors can post reviews against. Any other listing that the public can comment on that would allow shills to manipulate public opinion for or against...
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I was trying to work out how many times I have checked code into TFS for each project that I've worked on in a given date range. I still haven't managed to work out how to break it down by project but did get the total count. Ran Team Foundation Sidekicks. On History tab select my User name in the drop...
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You have a list of objects that you want to sort using LINQ. You want to sort by a primary and secondary key from the fields (properties or members) of the object. How do you do this? The answer is to do two sorts. The first by the secondary key and the second by the primary key. Here's a little test...
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Here's something that's caught me out a couple of times in the past so I'm documenting it to remind myself. My web page has a submit <input> tag that looks like this: <input type="submit" value="Create" /> I want to do some client side validation before I POST the page...
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After doing some analysis using Google's web master tools I discovered that I needed to make some improvements to how the CSS file(s) on a busy site were being delivered. This post follows on from and improves on Automatically keeping CSS file current on any web page . The CSS files need to be combined...
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Just started reading Ultra-Fast ASP.NET by Richard Kiessig (Build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server). So far very good. Will post more here. Richard Kiessig on twitter: http://twitter.com/UltraFastASPNET...
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The problem: You update your site's CSS file but your users aren't seeing your latest crazy colors and styles that you've selected for your web site. The reason: Your users' browsers have cached the CSS files and it could take days before those caches expire and your new CSS file is requested from your...
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I've been researching a jQuery drag and drop tree plugin for a project that I'm working on and so far I've found the following: 1. jsTree So far this is my favorite. It does almost everything that I want including in place editing of the tree items. One drawback is that it itself requires a ton of plugins...
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